Reinstalling Thunderbird
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Reinstalling Thunderbird
Hey There,
I am wanting to reinstall thunderbird because of a glitch with sending pdfs.
Does anyone know of a way to export the old contact list into the reinstalled thunderbird?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Darren
I am wanting to reinstall thunderbird because of a glitch with sending pdfs.
Does anyone know of a way to export the old contact list into the reinstalled thunderbird?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Darren
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If you just reinstall Thunderbird, nothing should change with your e-mails, contacts, settings, etc., since those are all kept in the profile. If you want to be on the safe side, look at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup how to make a backup copy.
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If the other end recognizes it as a PDF file, it seems to come with the correct application/pdf content type. Can you send yourself an e-mail (important: through your mail server, not just saving a copy in Sent!) with a PDF file to verify that the same happens on your end, and also to be able to look into what's actually going out? Do you use the same outgoing mail (SMTP) server for this machine as for the others? (may be corrupted on the way somehow)
Also, for the record: Which operating system and which Thunderbird version do you use?
Also, for the record: Which operating system and which Thunderbird version do you use?
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Ok, so it is either corrupted or truncated on the way out. Open the message you sent to yourself with View -> Message Source and look up the following lines preceding your PDF attachment:
Do you have anything different than "base64" in that last line? If it is sent out in 7bit, 8bit, or quoted-printable, this would indicate a corruption by sending a binary out as plain text.
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--------------(some long identifier)
Content-Type: application/pdf;
name="xxx.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
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Fixing this? Well, that's another story... this also depends on the operating system you are using. This looks like a wrong association between the application/pdf MIME type and the related actions. I found another topic in which a PDF attachment was sent as text (MacOS), and where deleting mimeTypes.rdf resolved the issue. Be advised though that deleting mimeTypes.rdf will also delete any other specific association you may have defined for a given content type! (I've never done that, thus I'm talking theory here)
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=213736
http://kb.mozillazine.org/MimeTypes.rdf
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=213736
http://kb.mozillazine.org/MimeTypes.rdf